Offenbach - Keck: Orphée aux Enfers (OEK critical edition: 1874 version) (Orpheus in der Unterwelt / Orpheus in the Underworld) (1874) 180'
Opéra-féerie in four acts (12 scenes)
Music Text
Libretto by Hector Crémieux (with the collaboration of Ludovic Halévy); original German version by Ludwig Kalisch, adapted and completed by Frank Harders-Wuthenow; new English version by Richard Duployen (F,G,E)
Scoring
9S,S(M),M,7T,2T(Bar),3B; chorus; ballet; 2(II=picc).2.2.2-2.2.3.0-timp.perc(2)-strings
For full details on this stagework, including synopsis and roles, please visit our Opera section.
World Premiere
2/7/1874
Théâtre de la Gaîté, Paris
unknown
World premiere of version
11/30/2002
Opernhaus, Graz
Jean-Louis Martinoty, director / Ensemble der Bühnen Graz / Johannes Stert
Opéra-féerie in four acts (12 scenes)
Music Text
Libretto by Hector Crémieux (with the collaboration of Ludovic Halévy); original German version by Ludwig Kalisch, adapted and completed by Frank Harders-Wuthenow; new English version by Richard Duployen (F,G,E)
Scoring
9S,S(M),M,7T,2T(Bar),3B; chorus; ballet; 2(II=picc).2.2.2-2.2.3.0-timp.perc(2)-strings
For full details on this stagework, including synopsis and roles, please visit our Opera section.
World Premiere
2/7/1874
Théâtre de la Gaîté, Paris
unknown
World premiere of version
11/30/2002
Opernhaus, Graz
Jean-Louis Martinoty, director / Ensemble der Bühnen Graz / Johannes Stert
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